Hang while hardware probing in 4.8

Hi,
I am installing FreeBSD 4.8 on a P4 and while hardware probing it hangs.
How do I find on which device it is hung on?
The print out stop after displaying
ppi0: <generic parallel i/0> on ppbus 0
And I am quite certain that probing gets stuck on whatever the next
device being probed is. Also I don't have conflicts.
I am a brand new user of FreeBSD so if such issues are already
documented somewhere please point me there and I will read up
thanks,
-- sanjay